A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.
CVE-2020-1950
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.4%, top 38% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 85.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 23, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (10)
- security@apachehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r463b1a67817ae55fe022536edd6db34e8f9636971188430cbcf8a8dd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- security@apachehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html
- security@apachehttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/
- security@apachehttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- security@apachehttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r463b1a67817ae55fe022536edd6db34e8f9636971188430cbcf8a8dd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00035.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4564-1/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-1950(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libtika-java (1.5-4ubuntu0.1) @ xenial | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libtika-java (1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1) @ jammy | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| redhat | tika-parsers | 2020-12-16 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.apache.tika:tika | 1.10 ... 1.9 (19 versions) | 1.24 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
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Additional Vendor Advisories
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Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
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